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** Alice has an STD and is afraid to pass it on.



** Alice is has terrifying anxiety about not having enough sex, leading her to have lots of sex.

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** Alice is has terrifying anxiety about afraid of not having enough sex, leading her to [[ReallyGetsAround have lots of sex.sex]].



* '''Defied''': Alice, with or without the help of Bob or anybody else, strives to get over her fear of sex.

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* '''Defied''': Alice, with or without the Alice gets help of Bob or anybody else, strives from a therapist to get over her fear of sex.

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'''Basic Trope''': A character is opposed to the very idea of having sexual intercourse.
* '''Straight''': Alice does not want to have sex with Bob.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice breaks down crying when anyone mentions anything sexual.

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'''Basic Trope''': A character desires romance and/or sex, but is opposed to the very idea too afraid of having sexual intercourse.
sexuality.
* '''Straight''': Alice does not want to have is afraid of having sex with her LoveInterest Bob.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice breaks shuts down crying completely when anyone mentions anything sexual.sexual, even a minor dirty joke.



* '''Averted''': Alice doesn't express knee-jerk opposition to the idea of intercourse.

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* '''Averted''': '''Averted''':
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Alice doesn't express knee-jerk opposition to the idea of intercourse.intercourse.
** Alice's attitude towards sexuality is not mentioned.
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** Tt turns out it was a thin excuse.

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** Tt It turns out it was a thin excuse.

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* '''Inverted''': AllMenArePerverts or AllWomenAreLustful.

* '''Subverted''': Alice says she doesn't want to have sex, but then says she's joking and makes out with Bob.
* '''Double Subverted''':...But then she realises how horrible it is and pulls away.

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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
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AllMenArePerverts or AllWomenAreLustful.

AllWomenAreLustful.
** Alice is has terrifying anxiety about not having enough sex, leading her to have lots of sex.
* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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Alice says she doesn't want to have sex, but then says she's joking and makes out with Bob.
** Someone assumes Alice has this problem, but it turns out she had a more practical reason for not wanting to have sex.
* '''Double Subverted''':...Subverted''':
** ...
But then she realises how horrible it is and pulls away.away.
** Tt turns out it was a thin excuse.
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* '''Reconstructed''': Alice understands her fear is not rational, so she can respect the choices of others, even as she fells they are wrong and disgusting.

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* '''Reconstructed''': Alice understands her fear is not rational, so she can respect the choices of others, even as she fells feels they are wrong and disgusting.
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* Alice was raped and has lingering trauma.

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* ** Alice was raped and has lingering trauma.

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* Alice was raped and has lingering trauma.






* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???
* '''Played for Laughs''': ???
* '''Played for Drama''': ???

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* '''Deconstructed''': ???
Alice's discomfort leads her to harshly judge people who she thinks are impure.
* '''Reconstructed''': ???
Alice understands her fear is not rational, so she can respect the choices of others, even as she fells they are wrong and disgusting.
* '''Played for Laughs''': ???
Whenever someone says anything remotely sexual, Alice gasps in an overdramatic fashion.
* '''Played for Drama''': ???Bob isn't willing to deal with Alice's hangups, and dumps her for it.

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* '''Straight''': Alice does not want to have sex with Bob

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'''Basic Trope''': A character is opposed to the very idea of having sexual intercourse.
* '''Straight''': Alice does not want to have sex with BobBob.



* '''Downplayed''':
** Alice considers having sex with Bob, but decides against it.
** Alice will get nude in non-sexual contexts, however {{reluctant|FanserviceGirl}}ly, but that's it.
* '''Justified''':
** Alice was raised to believe that SexIsEvil.
** Alice, Bob, or both have a debilitating inheritable disease, she doesn't want to risk giving birth to a child with said disease, and [[GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion she refuses to get pregnant only to abort it]].
* '''Inverted''': AllMenArePerverts or AllWomenAreLustful.



* '''Inverted''': AllMenArePerverts or AllWomenAreLustful.

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* '''Inverted''': AllMenArePerverts '''Parodied''': Mentioning or AllWomenAreLustful.showing even simulated sex around Alice is her KryptoniteFactor.
* '''Zig-Zagged''':
** Some days Alice runs from the idea of having sex, other days she doesn't.
** Some characters have this mentality, while others do not.
* '''Averted''': Alice doesn't express knee-jerk opposition to the idea of intercourse.
* '''Enforced''':
** Alice comes across as a [[invoked]]MarySue and this was the flaw the writers picked to thwart that.
** The writing process is driven by AnAesop about how SexIsGood.
* '''Lampshaded''': "I don't like sex. I find it viscerally worrisome."
* '''Invoked''': Alice became sexually inhibited after seeing her friend Claire fall into degeneracy and die young from such a lifestyle.
* '''Exploited''': [[TheRival Denise]] [[HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActiveToday boasts about her own sex life]] to rub it in Alice's nose what she could be missing.
* '''Defied''': Alice, with or without the help of Bob or anybody else, strives to get over her fear of sex.
* '''Discussed''': "That Alice, she's still a virgin at thirty-five. ... She's never gotten over that worry of hers."
* '''Conversed''': "Yes, SlutShaming is bad, but these shows go so far in the other direction that they create an equally bad attitude."
* '''Implied''': The thought of sex makes Alice's eyes bug out and her heart race.
* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???
* '''Played for Laughs''': ???
* '''Played for Drama''': ???
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*'''Straight''': Alice does not want to have sex with Bob
*'''Exaggerated''': Alice breaks down crying when anyone mentions anything sexual.
*'''Subverted''': Alice says she doesn't want to have sex, but then says she's joking and makes out with Bob.
*'''Double Subverted''':...But then she realises how horrible it is and pulls away.
*'''Inverted''': AllMenArePerverts or AllWomenAreLustful.

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